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From: scarfone@acsu.buffalo.edu (Steve Scarfone)
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Subject: sanctity of email was Re: Prodigy bashing.
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Date: 21 Apr 91 20:24:55 GMT
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In article <3540002@pollux.svale.hp.com> dlow@pollux.svale.hp.com (Danny Low) writes:
|>>(Ken McCook) 
|>> The sooner email is protected to the level of Snailmail by federal
|>>law the better, IMHO!  
|>
|>Email already has the same protection as US Mail. 

Could you elaborate on this?  Cite cases/laws/whatever ?

|>The problem is [...]
|>[t]hey would not recognize email if it was in front of their face. 

I have the same problem.

I use email a lot, but for the life of me I can't identify the disk that my 
mail spool is sitting on from a distance.